Publisher's Synopsis
Sons of Thor (The Legend of the Gold Shield) is the first of a five-book series about the historical period following the fall of the Roman Empire. The novel follows the story of the three sons of a former warrior Thorvald, captain in the service of the Saxon king Bron. The brothers are poles apart, but they could become the foundation of defense against the evil arriving from the North embodied in King Cyrus, an ambitious outlaw and warrior who plans to create a new empire and conquer a significant part of Europe ‒ and the world. Cyrus is a visionary who imagines a secular empire based on the Spartan model, with a privileged elite and numerous slaves, with trade from Saxony to China and large cities.
Old man Lysander, Thorwald's old friend and former army instructor at the Saxon court, begins training the boys to prepare them for struggles that are inevitably awaiting them because Cyrus's empire is expanding to the East. Lysander tells them the legend of the chosen son of God Thor, believing that one of them will be picked by the gods to defeat the evil spreading across the Earth. But before that, they have to find the Golden Shield that made Thor invincible, forcing Loki to hide it on the other end of the world since he was jealous of his brother.
